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Essay / "Once By The Pacific" - 514
All over the world, storms of varying length and intensity occur, and many writers attempt to capture what it feels like to face them. The storms have destroyed cities, caused deaths, and uprooted lives and homes. There have been many artistic ways of showing these storms – how they arose, arose, and overcame. paper, but few have succeeded in showing the storm. Frost's "Once by the Pacific" portrayed the central message and image of how nature is an unstoppable force and that Frost describes a storm that must be feared. could resemble a tsunami or a hurricane, both of which are tragic forces that would destroy anything in its path He writes in his poem: “Great waves looked at the others arriving and thought about doing something to the shore. water had never made to land before” (2-4). it announces total destruction. It's almost nasty in nature. Every word is laced with tension, as it foreshadows that what is about to happen is going to happen....